Tali Elfassy, PhD, MSPH

Tali Elfassy, PhD, MSPH

Dr. Tali Elfassy is an Assistant Professor of cardiometabolic research in the Department of Medicine, Division of Nephrology and Hypertension, at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine. An epidemiologist by training, Dr. Elfassy’s research is focused on the area of cardiovascular health and reducing minority health disparities. She is particularly interested in how social forces, including socio-economic position, acculturation, and culturally related behaviors such as diet, influence health and shape disparities within ethnic minority populations. In her NIH funded research, she is focused on identifying biological, social, and behavioral factors that explain differential rates of hypertension between the different Hispanic/Latino subgroups in the US. In another related area of her research, she is leading work to characterize dietary patterns among Asian Americans and analyzing whether these patterns are associated with indicators of cardiometabolic health and cognitive functioning across Asian American sub-groups.